Improvement in work-holders



- pression-spring i.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JANE E. GILMAN, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEM ENT IN WORK-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 102,534, dated May 3, 1870.

To @ZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I7 JANE E. GILMAN, of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented an Improved Device for Holding Cloth while being Sewed, of which the following is a specification.

My invention, as its name denotes, is designed for holding cloth while being sewed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention fixed to the corner of a table. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of the saine. l

The letter` a indicates the table; b, the main standard, hollow through the center. In this hollow center slides the piston c, which is screwed at the top into the cap d. ton c is held down rrnly by the spiral corn- The piston, and the cap d with it of course, can be raised by pressing down on the lever e beneath the table. Vhen the lever e is pressed down, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. l, the cap d will also be raised, as shown by dotted lines in the same The pis standard is held iirmly in place by a nut, s,

screwed onto itslower end, bearing up against the lower side of the table. On this nutare bearings 1 for the lever e.

I claim as my invention- The combination of the standard b, the piston c, with its cap d, the spring t', and the lever e, the whole constructed substantially as described, for the purpose set forth.

JANE E. GILMAN. Witnesses:

WM. E. SIMoNDs, HAREIET H. GILMAN. 

